VISUALIZING BIOLOGICAL DATA VIZBI

Due to popular demand, we have extended the deadline to February 26th for all Art & Biology and Scientific Posters. Submission instructions were included in your conference registration email.

Remember, in order to be eligible for any of the VIZBI awards, you must have submitted your entry by the deadline. Winners of the NVIDIA Award for Best Scientific Poster, Fourmentin-Guilbert Foundation Award for Best Lightning Talk and Autodesk Art & Biology Award will be announced during the closing session on Friday 11th March.

We are delighted to announce a new award for Best Lightning Talk; the winner will be decided by popular vote, and will receive a cash prize of €1,500 from the Fourmentin-Guilbert Foundation.

Lightning talks are a challenging format where presenters have 1 minute to convey their scientific message by any means necessary. We look forward to new standards of scientific communication being set by VIZBI participants competing for this new award!

We are very pleased to add the Fourmentin-Guilbert Foundation (@FondationFG on Twitter) to the list of organisations supporting VIZBI. The Foundation promotes the Life Sciences by supporting new concepts in biology, and raising awareness in other scientific disciplines.

To be eligible, you must upload a scientific poster plus lightning talk slides prior to February 26 at 23:59 CET (deadline has been extended).

We are pleased to announce that – as with previous years – Autodesk have agreed to sponsor a prize for the most visually compelling and original ‘Art & Biology’ submission. Each VIZBI participant is invited to upload one artistically-inspired image, which will be featured on the VIZBI poster gallery. The award winner will receive a three-year subscription to Autodesk Maya (valued at $4,410 USD). Maya is widely-used for creating interactive 3D applications, video games, animated film, TV series, and visual effects. This generous prize is offered to participants from academics and industry alike, but cannot be resold. The Art & Biology entries will be unveiled during the Art & Biology evening on Thursday 10th March, and the winner will be announced on 11th March during the closing session. For details see the VIZBI 2016 poster page. The deadline for upload is February 26 at 23:59 CET (deadline has been extended).

We are pleased to announce that – as with previous years – NVIDIA have agreed to sponsor a generous prize for the poster that best exemplifies the use of data visualization to gain clear, compelling insight into an important scientific problem. The award winner will receive a Quadro M6000 card, one of the world’s most powerful GPUs, making real-time photorealistic rendering possible for even complex scenes. It can drive up to four 4K displays simultaneously, and its 3,072 CUDA cores make it perfect for many scientific applications. To upload your poster, use the submission link in your VIZBI registration email. Accepted posters will be published in the VIZBI poster gallery. The deadline for upload is February 26 at 23:59 CET (deadline has been extended).

VIZBI 2016 features 10 tutorials covering a range of key visualization tools & methods; for details, see the online program. Note that tutorial registration is separate from conference registration; both close on 8 February 2016.

Morning Tutorials (8 March, 09:30 – 13:00)

• Best practices for visual storytelling in science (Gaël McGill, Stuart Jantzen, & Jodie Jenkinson)
• Functional insight from protein structure visualization with Aquaria (Seán O’Donoghue)
• Mesoscopic and molecular visualization with Blender – Basic hands-on workshop (Björn Sommer & Christopher Hammang)
• Rapid user-centered design for data visualization (Francis Rowland & Nikiforos Karamanis & Ryo Sakai)
• Using R to generate visualizations of biological data (Paul Brennan & Dean Hammond)

Afternoon Tutorials (8 March, 14:30 – 18:00)

• Advanced molecular visualization with Molecular Maya’s DNA and cytoskeleton kits and Clarafi’s visualization annotation tool (Gaël McGill)
• Integration and visualization of biological linked data (Alexander Garcia & Nandana Mihindukulasooriya)
• Interpretation of small molecule High Throughput Screening data for chemical biology and drug discovery (Sheraz Gul)
• Mesoscopic and molecular visualization with Blender – Advanced hands-on workshop (Christopher Hammang & Björn Sommer)
• Reuse, develop, and share biological visualisations with BioJS (José M. Villaveces, David Dao, Gustavo A. Salazar, Leyla Jael Garcia Castro, & Dennis Schwartz)

Childcare is offered for children between the age of 3 months and 3 years to registered conference participants. The children will be looked after by highly professional Kindergarten teachers, employed by the EMBL Kinderhaus. This service is offered for the duration of the entire conference for 100 Euro per child. Childcare can only be provided for 10 children per conference. Registration will be on a first-come first-served basis. For more information please visit: http://www.embl.de/training/events/info_participants/childcare.